Most shell accounts come with SSH access, but the advantage of using your own
installation is that you can configure it exactly how you want. Does anyone know
if you can put your own copy of OpenSSH on a shell account and use that instead?
(It's OK if it doesn't use a privileged port). Or, failin

SSH allows the option of hashing the known-hosts file in order to prevent
people who get access to your account being able to jump other places. Is
is not conceivable that they'd want the same option with their options
file?